Sixteen Bulgarian lawmakers lost their seats on Thursday after the Constitutional Court found they were wrongly elected during a partial recount of the October election.

Greece experienced unusually high temperatures on Friday with Livadia in central Greece recording a high of 28.7 degrees Celsius.

Investors’ bids for Greece’s second market foray this year amounted to an impressive 60 billion euros on Thursday.

An Egypt-bound flight from London had to make an emergency landing in Athens on Wednesday due to unruly conduct by a passenger.

Measles cases in the European region doubled in 2024 to a more than 25-year-high, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said on Thursday, as they urged action to restore vaccination levels that slumped after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday congratulated Konstantinos Tasoulas on assuming the Greek presidency.

Fourteen of the 23 arrested on suspicion of being members of criminal networks involved in antiquities smuggling have been remanded in custody on criminal charges.

Police arrested three members of a human trafficking ring, including its leader, on Wednesday during raids in Athens and Corinth. Three other individuals were also detained.

In the year after Russia launched outright war on Ukraine, NATO leaders approved a set of military plans designed to repel an invasion of Europe.

Greek property owners are required to clear their plots for a second consecutive year ahead of wildfire season. The government platform for declarations will be open from April 1 to 30, with penalties for noncompliance. 

Last year recorded a shift toward full-time, salaried employment.

Ian Lesser, the vice president and Brussels chief of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, joins Thanos Davelis to break down what’s at stake for Europe amid questions about America’s commitment to the continent’s security, and look at how Greece can navigate this new reality, balancing its ties with the US and its European partners.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres will host talks next week in Geneva to discuss the future of Cyprus, with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, and representatives from Greece, Turkey and Britain, a UN spokesperson said on Friday.

PASOK, the main socialist opposition party, has criticized the new cabinet unveiled on Friday as a “recycling of failed ministers in different roles,” saying it highlights Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ “strategic deadlock.”

US Vice President JD Vance was booed by the audience as he attended a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Thursday evening. According to a report in The New York Times, the concert featured the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, with renowned violinist Leonidas Kavakos performing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No 2 as the soloist.

A number of issues remain open for National after the agreement for the sale of Ethniki to Piraeus Bank.

The digital reform of the Greek shipping registry continues, with new functionalities being integrated into niologio.gov.gr to further simplify procedures and reduce bureaucracy, the Ministry of Shipping announced on Friday.

The official music video for Greece’s entry in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest was released on Friday.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made adjustments to his Cabinet on Friday as his center-right government struggles with lingering public outrage over Greece’s deadliest rail disaster two years ago.

The Culture Ministry has launched a restoration project for the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, a UNESCO World Heritage site.